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In an expansion-heavy time for Xbox, Phil Spencer says he doesn't like "expansions that are manipulative" – "I don't want it to be, like, the third level that you cut"
news "Not every game will do expansions"
A Deep Rock Galactic player became a real-life explosives miner as "a direct result" of the "silly little dwarf game," and he couldn't be happier with his career
Interview Interview | Yes, he has an epic beard
Ubisoft kills "inaccurate rumors" around Assassin's Creed Animus Hub: rewards are "entirely free," no paid sub or battle pass, and "no extra cost" to missions
News Update: Ubisoft steps in to set the record straight
Meet Elden Ring's newest hero: the Lore Accurate Knight, a sword-and-board legend crushing bosses with a simple Dark Souls-inspired loadout
news "Imagine how they must feel losing to a common knight"
Helldivers 2's new Democracy Space Station is killing so many Helldivers that the devs are giving out free shields and extra lives in a "temporary" emergency fix
News Update: Arrowhead agrees the DSS is a team-killing nightmare
That slick Prince of Persia action roguelike from the Dead Cells co-dev is getting a huge update that throws out the old art style and doubles the content
news The Prince of Purple is gone, but may return in a skin
Avowed is selling 5 days of early access, and in a surprise twist fueled by Xbox buying everyone, Obsidian's RPG is coming to Activision Blizzard's Battle.net
news Fork over $90 and you can play Avowed five days early
Under PS5 dominance, Microsoft says you don't need a console at all, actually everything is an Xbox, and "you're probably reading this right now from an Xbox"
news What isn't an Xbox, really?
No Man's Sky dev shares another reminder of how hard game dev is: 20 different formats to balance, with "around 140 combinations of graphics options" on PC
news "Which I hope conveys the complexity involved in releasing a large cross platform game like ours"
The First Descendant devs have "important news" for fans of the RPG shooter: "A decision has been made to add the much-requested 'Jiggle Physics'"
news You asked for it
Xbox faces hundreds of striking employees as union at Bethesda parent ZeniMax stages a walkout to "tell Microsoft to stop dragging their feet"
news ZeniMax Workers United reckons "Microsoft runs on outsourcing"
Destiny 2 is kind of a mess right now: bugs are making it harder to enjoy my favorite MMO and it only seems to be getting worse
Features Opinion | Weightgate is frankly the least of Destiny 2's problems
"Please give it a chance": After 3,200 mixed Steam reviews for his new MMO, RuneScape creator explains the soft-reset class design confusing some players
news Brighter Shores plays very differently from RuneScape, even if it can look similar
Sony boss admits forcing PC gamers into PlayStation accounts can "invite pushback," but insists they have to keep games safe – which doesn't really track in single-player
news Horizon Zero Dawn remastered is the latest PC game to require a PSN account
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero "saw outstanding sales," and Bandai Namco says roughly 90% of that was from European and North American fans
news Dragon Ball, in general, is orders of magnitude bigger outside Japan
Genshin Impact community rallies to pummel one player "shamelessly admitting that I want friends" with so many friend requests that they can barely respond to everyone
news "I managed to play on co-op with one person last night briefly, and they were really kind"
Now that's a nasty MMO bug: Old School RuneScape players watched in confusion as thousands of bolts and arrows vanished in a black hole strapped to their shoulder
news Dizana's Quiver in OSRS was bugged and eating ranged ammo
Monster Hunter Wilds players use the Palico character creator to remember lost pets: "I have shed tears multiple times but I also feel happy that I can still fight monsters with my buddy"
news "They can accompany us into a whole new world," said one player
Days after Wii U gem Xenoblade Chronicles X was finally announced for Switch, Nintendo says the JRPG series has seen roughly 500% growth on Switch vs 3DS and Wii U
news Xenoblade has sold over 7 million copies on Switch
The best Persona games, ranked
Features With Persona 3 Reload and Persona 5 Royal released, we rank the 12 best Persona games to see how the classics stack up
Artist reimagines Elden Ring as a Baldur's Gate-style top-down RPG "despite my love-hate relationship with the game," is surprised to see it's absolutely stunning
news Elden Gate has a nice *ring* to it
After 800 hours of practice finally paid off, hitless runner explains why a no-hit run of Borderlands 2 was way harder than games like Dark Souls or Skyrim
news A hitless Borderlands 2 clear didn't even seem possible for a long time
Capcom wants to know what Monster Hunter Wilds players thought of the beta – Here are 11 things I want fixed before launch
Features The Monster Hunter Wilds beta was on its way to greatness, but not quite there
